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- The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
- Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
- Alexander Haig
- A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 - )
- In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
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